Sylvan is a graphical user interface, command line interface, and Chinese Chess (also called Xiangqi) library derived from Cute Chess. Sylvan is written in C++ using the Qt framework.
Binaries for both the GUI and the sylvan-cli command-line interface are available here
Sylvan requires Qt 5.7 or greater, a compiler with C++11 support and qmake.
In the simplest case you only have to issue:
$ qmake
$ make
If you are using the Visual C++ compiler replace make with nmake.
Documentation is available as Unix manual pages in the docs/ directory. API
documentation can be built by issuing make doc-api (requires Doxygen).
For detailed build instruction on various operating systems please visit:
The sylvan-cli program is run from the command line to play games between
chess engines. For example to play ten games between two Sloppy engines
(assuming sloppy is in PATH) with a time control of 40 moves in 60
seconds:
$ sylvan-cli -engine cmd=sloppy -engine cmd=sloppy -each proto=uci tc=40/60 -rounds 10
See sylvan-cli -help for descriptions of the supported options or manuals
for full documentation.
Sylvan is released under the GPLv3+ license except for the components in
the projects/lib/components and projects/gui/components directories which
are released under the MIT License.
Sylvan was written by Wilbert Lee and contributors